Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Whoop Di DOOCaught these fish on Friday. Blah blah. I fished for a while and got stone-walled by all the big carp that had been eating flies to date. They would literally be just fine and un-spooked while I casted and presented.... and while the fly sank... they'd swim over and look at it and as soon as they evil peacock herl of the LOD pierced their retinas and materialized in the back of their eyeballs they all did 180s and bolted. Woohoo. Then I walked up the mouth of a little trib and found some very turbid water... nearly zero vis - maybe ~1 inch. I could see nervous water though, and the blade-edges of tails now and then. Feeding fish. I put the worm-colored SJW on a tailer... and the FISH FREAKING BOLTED. Could not believe it. No way the fish saw me. All I can figure is that he saw or felt the fly sink and got scared. Who knows. Next tailer did the same thing. I was saying out loud things like "No way dude. No fugging way." Finally, I set the SJW down ever so gently, and waited ~2 seconds. Picked it up and found this little carp had it right in the mouth. No runs no hits no errors and fish was landed. Someone asked to "see it" and I said under breath "it's just a carp man" mainly because I was distraught and that state makes me like people even less than normal. Not sure what it is but I can't get a happy vibe from fishing right now. Need to bust out of it. One little parting rip on LMB though - I put the LOD on a sunning carp... couldn't get him to eat it, despite that fact that I was purposefully and intentionally trying to get him to eat... while fly sank, caught this LMB by pure accident. So to get that straight, it seems that while one cannot catch carp despite best efforts, he can catch LMB with no effort. Just for the record.